Slide with text: “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”

In small print it says the data is collected over 2022 and 2023.

  • lightnegative@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s nothing wrong with putting Rc<_> or Rc> around data

    It’s mainly the visual pollution that bothers me. Wrapping everything in the reference counting smart pointers just because you can’t be bothered dealing with the borrow checker seems like an antipattern

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know why so many recommend Rc or Arc as a catchall. 90% of the time if you want to avoid the borrow checker then a clone or copy is good enough.